- The chips will be without restrictions or license fees, in this way, the use will be more accessible.
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| 40 chip models will be created. / Unsplash.com |
Google partners with the US to develop new 'open source' chips to lower the costs of this industry
The US Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has signed a cooperative research and development agreement with Google to develop and produce next-generation chips.
These parts will be used to create new semiconductor and nanotechnology devices, and NIST notes that Google will pay the initial cost of setting up production and even subsidize it.
The US entity will design the circuits for the chips with the help of the University of Michigan, the University of Maryland, George Washington University, Brown University, and Carnegie Mellon University.
The goal is to design up to 40 different chips for various uses. The circuit prototypes will be open source, allowing researchers to use the chips without restrictions or licensing fees, making use more accessible.
Will Grannis (CEO of Google Public Sector) notes that "Google has a long history of leadership in open source. Moving to an open source framework encourages reproducibility, which helps researchers from public and private institutions to repeat the work of others. It also democratizes innovation in nanotechnology and semiconductor research."
The collaboration between NIST and Google will reduce the price of chips, as well as its mission to unlock the innovative potential of researchers and startups in the United States.
On the other hand, the union will create a more advanced lower layer chip with specialized structures to measure and test the performance of the rest of the components.
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